la bodegita had salami, all of the candy from DR, coconete, casabe, he had a good selection. even though the stuff was made in NY/NJ it taste pretty close to the real thing.

This store owner told me that if the Brugal bottle has a plastic cap, the rum is not the exact same as the one sold in DR.

Presidentes just don't taste the same here...

I drink becks or heinekin when I am in the states. I only drink presidente in DR, I laugh when I see people drinking miller in DR. They think that they are cool and do not know that miller is one of the cheapest beers in USA, it tastes like garbage! lol

it definetely is the piss of beers! american beer is a joke!

So last wknd I went to the Bodeguita Dominicana place on Armitage and it wasnt there! I was frikin pissed. Anyone know what happen to it?

He had to move, but can get you what ever you need from NYC. They run a shipping company so he makes many trips to NY each month.

I think that Bud and old style are the worst. lol american beers leave you with a bad taste in your mouth and a huge headache the next day.

Dede Mirabal Coming to Chicago for Free!!! Twice!

http://www.arteyvidachicago.com/events/dede-mirabal-vivas-en-su-jardin

1. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Lunes 21, al mediodia
DePaul University
Cortelyou Commons

2. Lincoln Park Campus
2324 N Freemont (Between Belden & Fullerton)
Tuesday, Septermber 22
6PM
FREE

Dede Mirabal: Vivas en su Jardín

“Why weren’t you murdered?” Dedé Mirabal is constantly asked. “I lived to tell the story”, she answers. And in the pages of Vivas en su jardín she does exactly that: she tells us the story of her three sisters, Patria, Minerva and María Teresa, known as “the butterflies”, whose opposition to the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo cost them their lives, shook the Dominican society to the core, and triggered the events that led to the assassination of the dictator and brought down his brutal regime.

In her introduction to the book, author Julia Alvarez (In the Time of the Butterflies) states that “Dedé speaks about her sisters as human beings— flesh and blood— making it clear that heroism can live in us all . . . but she does not mention what may seem more natural to us: her own heroism, which may be easy to overlook.” Eduardo Galeano (Las venas abiertas de América Latina) stresses that Vivas en su jardín stands out for its courage, calling it “an intimate testimony, the story narrated from within, dictated by the memory [of the one] that lived it.”

Dedé Mirabal supported her sisters wholeheartedly but never became actively involved in the underground movement for various reasons. Mirabal and her mother helped to raise Patria, Minerva, and Mate’s children. She runs a museum in honor of her sisters, Museo de las Hermanas Mirabal, in their hometown of Salcedo, Dominican Republic. Through the years since their assassination, she has striven to keep their memory alive in the minds of the Dominicans.

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Lunes 21, al mediodia
DePaul University
Cortelyou Commons
Lincoln Park Campus
2324 N Freemont (Between Belden & Fullerton)
Tuesday, Septermber 22
6PM
FREE

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Dede Mirabal Coming to Chicago for Free!!! Twice!

http://www.arteyvidachicago.com/events/dede-mirabal-vivas-en-su-jardin

1. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Lunes 21, al mediodia
DePaul University
Cortelyou Commons

2. Lincoln Park Campus
2324 N Freemont (Between Belden & Fullerton)
Tuesday, Septermber 22
6PM
FREE

Dede Mirabal: Vivas en su Jardín

“Why weren’t you murdered?” Dedé Mirabal is constantly asked. “I lived to tell the story”, she answers. And in the pages of Vivas en su jardín she does exactly that: she tells us the story of her three sisters, Patria, Minerva and María Teresa, known as “the butterflies”, whose opposition to the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo cost them their lives, shook the Dominican society to the core, and triggered the events that led to the assassination of the dictator and brought down his brutal regime.

In her introduction to the book, author Julia Alvarez (In the Time of the Butterflies) states that “Dedé speaks about her sisters as human beings— flesh and blood— making it clear that heroism can live in us all . . . but she does not mention what may seem more natural to us: her own heroism, which may be easy to overlook.” Eduardo Galeano (Las venas abiertas de América Latina) stresses that Vivas en su jardín stands out for its courage, calling it “an intimate testimony, the story narrated from within, dictated by the memory [of the one] that lived it.”

Dedé Mirabal supported her sisters wholeheartedly but never became actively involved in the underground movement for various reasons. Mirabal and her mother helped to raise Patria, Minerva, and Mate’s children. She runs a museum in honor of her sisters, Museo de las Hermanas Mirabal, in their hometown of Salcedo, Dominican Republic. Through the years since their assassination, she has striven to keep their memory alive in the minds of the Dominicans.

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Lunes 21, al mediodia
DePaul University
Cortelyou Commons
Lincoln Park Campus
2324 N Freemont (Between Belden & Fullerton)
Tuesday, Septermber 22
6PM
FREE

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I was not able to go to this event... did you go to El Torito concert last month?